“Roseanne” has been the big sitcom story of the season, and recently Ad Week talked with ABC honcho Ben Sherwood about the show’s revival. If Hollywood has been out of touch with “mainstream America, ” Sherwood asserts — a sweeping assumption Ad Week simply repeats as fact — the obvious move postelection...

History was made on the CBS reality series "Survivor." For the first time in 36 seasons, the season finale ended in a deadlock, and a tiebreaker was needed to crown a champ. Host Jeff Probst on Wednesday night revealed jurors on "Survivor: Ghost Island" in Fiji were deadlocked at five votes apiece...

Amid movements such as #MeToo and Time's Up, Hollywood is experiencing an era of change. While a number of men in the industry have stepped up to support their fellow female actors, a recent New York Times interview featuring the predominantly male cast of "Arrested Development" left some feeling...

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In a raw sit-down with the New York Times, the cast of "Arrested Development" addressed the allegations against co-star Jeffrey Tambor, with Jessica Walter saying that he had verbally harassed her. Walter said that she had to "let go of being angry at him," adding, "He never crossed the line on...

In a single tweet, the president swooped in and saved the day on the season finale of ABC 's "Roseanne" on Tuesday night. It was a fitting end to a show that has deftly used politics and President Donald Trump (though never mentioning his name) to gin up ratings and reactions, while still somehow...

The Michael Jackson estate is objecting to an ABC TV special airing Thursday on the end of the life of the late King of Pop, calling it a crass attempt to exploit Jackson without respect for his legacy or children. The estate said in a statement to The Associated Press on Wednesday that "The Last...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of the most decorated actors in television history. She holds the record for the most Emmys ever won by a single performer - 11 total, six of which were consecutive wins for "Veep" - as well as a Peabody Award, Golden Globe and nine Screen Actors Guild awards. This fall,...

Kelly Clarkson was a brand-new coach on "The Voice" this year - but that didn't stop her from making a bold proclamation in the very first episode of the season in February, when she made a bid for contestant Brynn Cartelli. "I can win with you," Clarkson said to Cartelli, the teenage pop-soul...

Emmy voters nominated five first-year dramas in 2017 — “The Crown,” “Stranger Things,” “This Is Us,” “Westworld” and the eventual winner, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Joining them were “Better Call Saul” and “House of Cards,” two series with new seasons that will arrive too late this year to be Emmy...

Drama series "UnReal" is set to move from Lifetime to Hulu for its fourth and what will likely be its final season. The streaming service and A+E Studios are close to a deal, sources tell Variety,that would see the fourth season, which has already been shot, air in its initial window on Hulu. The...

For many actors, filming traumatic scenes is a memorable experience — there’s so much emotion and pain they must tap into to deliver the right take. It can be a dark moment on an otherwise cheery set. But for DeWanda Wise of “She’s Gotta Have It,” it’s a distressing scene from the Netflix series’...

The making of HBO’s “Westworld” is a complicated process that star Jeffrey Wright describes as “a game of benevolent chaos.” Multiple units are filming on the same day — sometimes as many as four might be working on different portions of an episode. “These many threads come together to create one...

Season 43 of "Saturday Night Live," which began on Sept. 30, faced a heavy news cycle, to say the least. Newspapers were jam-packed for months with stories including the rise of the #MeToo movement, mass shootings in America and the ensuing debates about gun control, the ongoing circus that is...

Sarah Rose Summers of Nebraska was crowned Miss USA 2018 on Monday night; she won over the runner-up, Caelynn Miller-Keyes of North Carolina, and the third-place finisher, Carolina Urrea of Nevada. But before the crown was handed out, they all had to participate in the most dreaded part of a beauty...

Jordan Klepper guesses there’s about a 20% overlap between the clueless character he plays on his Comedy Central late-night news satire show “The Opposition” and his real self. Klepper’s a progressive, doesn’t put any stock in right-wing conspiracy theories, and generally tries to find causes to...

A person who committed suicide returning as a ghost. A student arriving at school armed with guns. A brutal rape in a school bathroom. Warning: This article contains spoilers. These are just three reasons why Netflix's "13 Reasons Why" has reignited concerns over its content and what effect it...

The results are in on the rebooted "American Idol" and the winning contestant is... Maddie Poppe. From the moment 20-year old Iowa native Poppe auditioned with "The Rainbow Connection," she was a clear frontrunner. And week after week, viewers saw her blossom into an artist. As Perry often complimented,...

After nine seasons, the saga of the Hecks of Orson, Ind., comes to an end Tuesday night. Like the Hecks themselves, "The Middle," the ABC sitcom that contains them, has kept chugging along, doing its less-than-glamorous, seemingly old-fashioned thing for a reliable 6 million to 8 million viewers...

Around this time 21 years ago, “Roseanne,” the groundbreaking sitcom about the blue-collar Conner family, came to an end after a successful 10-year run. The notion that it’d be pulled out of retirement more than two decades later and become the success story of the 2017-18 television season would...

The New York Police Department is investigating allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against celebrity chef Mario Batali. The NYPD confirmed the probe following a "60 Minutes" broadcast Sunday night in which an unnamed woman accused Batali of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2005. The...

As it seeks to create mainstream blockbuster series to distinguish itself in an increasingly competitive TV market, Amazon Studios has tapped another NBC veteran for a key leadership role. Vernon Sanders has been named co-head of television, and will work alongside co-head Albert Cheng to oversee...

Lena Waithe, who made history as the first woman of color to win an Emmy Award for comedy writing for her work on "Master of None," will be honored with the "Trailblazer" Award at the 2018 "MTV Movie & TV Awards." The prize recognizes game-changing creators with fresh and fearless voices in entertainment....

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Netflix has secured a deal with President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama to produce series and movies for the streaming service. The former first couple will, according to announcement Monday from the company, potentially work on scripted and unscripted series as well as docu-series,...

Perhaps getting married to a U.S. television star helps in the royal wedding ratings. The Nielsen company says 29.2 million people in the United States watched the wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle early Saturday. The London ceremony aired starting at 7 a.m. Eastern time...

For broadcast television executives, upfront week in May is when they introduce their fall schedules to advertisers and boast about their creative and ratings successes over the last TV season. But it's also time for them to face some uncomfortable questions. Last week, TV suits got on conference...

Each week William Lee and Nina Metz recap and discuss the second season of “Westworld,” which airs Sundays on HBO. Note: Spoilers ahead Maeve and her team finally make their way into the heart of Shogun World, while Dolores and Teddy ride into Sweetwater to commandeer a train. And somewhere down...

Tina Fey hosted the May 19 season finale of "Saturday Night Live" and she brought with her some of her famous friends. For her opening monologue, the former "SNL" writer and actor said she was told she was allowed to do anything because it was her birthday yesterday, and what she wanted to do was...

Just hours after Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex married Meghan Markle, “Saturday Night Live” put its own spin on the royal wedding on its May 19 season finale. Offering an "exclusive" look inside the reception, Mikey Day's Prince Harry took his wedding videographer -and the audience by extension...

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The royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was grand in many ways, but perhaps the most striking aspect were the myriad collisions of American and British culture. The wedding was an unprecedented mix of royal pomp, British tradition, African American culture and Hollywood celebrity. Britain’s...

Warning: Spoilers ahead Pilsen contestant Beni Cwiakala was named the “MasterChef Junior” Season 6 winner on Friday’s episode after she served a three-course dinner that the judges called incredible. The Namaste Charter School fifth-grader celebrated her win Friday with family members and fellow...

Democracy has been replaced by authoritarian rule. All books, music and art deemed “inappropriate” are banned. Citizens are controlled by computers and/or robots. Free will is a thing of the past. The best sci-fi and dystopian fantasies articulate the fears of a grim future America that’s terrifyingly...

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” took a six-year break between its eighth and ninth seasons. Fans — and its cast members — won’t have to wait so long for another go-around, as “Curb” will soon begin shooting a 10th season. Cast member J.B. Smoove, who plays Leon, Larry David’s permanent houseguest on the...

In the odd and oddly lovely "Joe Pera Talks With You," premiering in back-to-back 11-minute episodes Sunday at midnight on Adult Swim, the New York-based comedian Joe Pera plays a middle-school choir teacher of the same name in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with a sideline in "presentation." Each...

The network MTV has temporarily suspended shooting of "Catfish: The TV Show" while it investigates sexual misconduct accusations made by a woman who appeared on it three years ago. Ayissha Morgan alleges in YouTube videos she was solicited for sex by a "main person" on the show who she identified...

A few of the men vying for Becca Kufrin’s heart on “The Bachelorette” have ties to Illinois. NFL journeyman Clay Harbor, who was born in Libertyville and raised in downstate Dwight; and Joe Amabile, a 31-year-old grocery store owner from Chicago, are among the 28 suitors competing on Season 14...

The series finale is a do-or-die moment when a show gets one last chance to say whatever it has to say and do whatever must be done. Expectations are high, failures are frequent and viewers are seldom 100 percent satisfied. Our complaints generally split two ways: Some believe deeply in the definitive...

It is inevitable that the #MeToo movement will be turned into TV and film. But whose stories will be told? And who gets to tell them? The answers feel … well, actually kind of predictable for Hollywood. Last week, the New Yorker published a long and fascinating profile of TV producer Ryan Murphy...

Megyn Kelly’s cooking segment with Chicago restaurateur Billy Dec was awkward from start to finish Thursday. Dec, who recently opened a Sunda restaurant in Nashville, showed Kelly and her NBC morning show audience how to cook shrimp stir-fry with leftovers. “So this one’s definitely not for me...

If you’re a Television Academy member (and with the group’s ranks swelling to 22,000-plus, who isn’t these days?), for the last few weeks you could have had your hair done like the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, watched David Letterman interview Jerry Seinfeld at Netflix’s massive Emmy campaign space or...